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AlienVault,
the only open and collaborative Unified
Security Management platform delivering built-in controls and full
visibility, announced today that Hugh Njemanze will join as a senior
industry advisor. Njemanze will work closely with AlienVault’s senior
management team, providing counsel on their Unified Security Management
platform and technology, as well as overall go-to-market strategy.

“Hugh created one of the first companies in the SIEM space, and his
understanding of the market is second to none,” said AlienVault
President and CEO, Barmak
Meftah. “Not only will his industry expertise help us expand our
Unified Security Management platform, but his support further validates
our focus on bringing complete, simple and affordable security
visibility to all. We’re confident his counsel will be invaluable as we
build upon our leadership for the next stage of growth.”

Njemanze co-founded ArcSight in May 2000 and served as CTO as well as
Executive Vice President of research and development. He led product
development, information technology deployment, and product research at
the firm, and expanded these responsibilities to lead all engineering
and R&D efforts for HP’s Enterprise Security Products group, the
organization that ArcSight became part of post-acquisition. Njemanze is
now an advisor and entrepreneur at investment firm, Kleiner Perkins
Caufield Byers (KPCB). Prior to joining ArcSight, Njemanze worked as the
CTO at Verity, where he led product development, and before that he was
at Apple in software engineering, where he was one of the key architects
behind the Data Access Language (DAL). Njemanze is a CISSP and holds a
B.S. in computer science from Purdue University. He was also honored
with the Northern California Ernst & Young LLP Entrepreneur of The Year
award in 2010.

“I had the pleasure of working with Hugh while we were both still part
of HP, and enthusiastically welcome his input on our product strategy
and roadmap,” said AlienVault’s CTO, Roger
Thornton. “He shares our passion for a collaborative approach to
security and understands that true security visibility and intelligence
requires a variety of essential security controls built-in and working
together, not just SIEM. The whole engineering and R&D team is excited
for the opportunity to work with an industry pioneer to continue to
evolve both our commercial USM offering, and OSSIM.”

“What excites me about AlienVault is their focus on achieving security
visibility through the pre-integration of all of the necessary security
controls—IDS, vulnerability scanning, network flow analysis, behavioral
analysis detection, log management, asset inventory, compliance
reporting and SIEM,” said Njemanze. “Their vision of combining these
controls in a single Unified Security Management platform that’s simple
to deploy and use and affordable for any security budget, is unique in
the industry. AlienVault is passionate about striving to make security
visibility an achievable reality for all organizations, and I
look forward to contributing to their continued success.”

AlienVault provides organizations of all types and sizes with
unprecedented visibility across the entire security ‘stack’ with the AlienVault
Unified Security Management™ (AV-USM™) platform. Based on OSSIM–
the de facto standard open source SIEM created by AlienVault – the
AV-USM platform has five essential security capabilities built-in: asset
discovery, vulnerability assessment, threat detection, behavioral
monitoring and security intelligence. The AlienVault Open
Threat Exchange™, a system for sharing threat intelligence among
OSSIM users and AlienVault customers, ensures AV-USM always stays ahead
of threats. AlienVault is a privately held company headquartered in
Silicon Valley and backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sigma,
Trident Capital and Adara Venture Partners. For more information visit www.AlienVault.com or
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